Preferences

Antecedents that are in the previous AP to that containing
the anaphor

20

2a

Antecedents that are in the most recent unclosed AP

30

2b

Antecedents in the topic

15

6

Antecedents that appear with the verb of the anaphor more
than once

5

7

Antecedents that are in the same position with reference
to the verb as the anaphor (before or after)

5

8

Antecedents that are in the same position with reference
to the utterance as the anaphor

5

12

The nearest antecedent to the anaphor

YES

In this final experiment, the preference set obtained in the previous experiment
was used (including the minimum set of preferences that we considered to
be the optimal configuration). Then, several alternatives were used in
order to obtain an optimal preference weight assignment. Tables 5
and 6 show the preference weight assignments for pronominal
and adjectival anaphora, respectively.

Table 6: Preference weight assignment for adjectival anaphora

Pref. No.

Description

Weight

1

Antecedents that are in the same AP as the anaphor

35

2

Antecedents that are in the previous AP to that containing
the anaphor

10

2a

Antecedents that are in the most recent unclosed AP

10

2b

Antecedents in the topic

35

3

Antecedents that share the same kind of modifiers

5

4

Antecedents with exactly the same modifiers

5

5

Antecedents that agree in number

5

8

The nearest antecedent to the anaphor

YES

This final set of constraints and preferences was presented in Section
5.2.